Pakistani dissidents

Mohammad Asghar Khan (Urdu: اصغر خان‎ 17 January 1921 – 5 January 2018), was a Pakistani politician and an autobiographer, later a dissident serving the cause of pacifism, peace, and human rights.

Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, The Rape of Bangla Desh (1971) and Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood (1986).

Mushahid Hussain Syed (Urdu: مشاہد حسین سید‬; b. 1953) is a Pakistani politician, and journalist who is currently the Pakistan Senator from the Islamabad Capital Territory on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), since 3 March 2018.

Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (born 18 September 1954) was a Pakistani politician and leader of al-Zulfiqar, a terrorist organization operating in Pakistan. The son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, he earned a bachelor's degree from the Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. Murtaza founded al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. In 1981, he claimed responsibility for the murder of conservative politician Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, and the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines airplane from Karachi, during which a hostage was killed. In exile in Afghanistan, Murtaza was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal.

Mohammed Younus Shaikh (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد یونس شیخ‎, born 30 May 1952) is a Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist and freethinker.

Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi (( )); (Urdu: مخدوم محمد جاوید ہاشمی‎; born 1 January 1948), is a Pakistani politician, political realist, and a senior conservative thinker on the platform of Pakistan Muslim League (N).

Karima Baloch (8 March 1983 – 20/22 December 2020), also known as Karima Mehrab, was a Pakistani Baloch human rights activist and dissident. She campaigned for the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan, and was included in the BBC's list of 100 inspirational and influential women in 2016.

Mubashir Hassan (Urdu: مبشر حسن‎; 22 January 1922 – 14 March 2020) was a Pakistani socialist who was instrumental in nationalization program and was Finance Minister of Bhutto government.

Zulfiqar Shah (Sindhi ذوالفقار شاہ Hindi जुल्फिकार शाह) is a civil rights activist, journalist and writer of Sindhi origin. He was forced by the Pakistan Army to unlawfully leave the country and close down The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan in May 2012. He resettled in Nepal, where the UNHCR approved him for refugee status. In Kathmandu, he began freelancing with newspapers and websites on the issues of Pakistan, particularly concerning Sindh and the restive province of Balochistan. He was insurrected in his house in Kathmandu and was given heavy metal poison by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI with local facilitation; however he was rescued by local doctors. He was forced to leave Nepal, thus he left for Pakistan in December 2013. In Pakistan, he again was persecuted and threatened to be killed. He went India for medical treatment on 11 February 2013, where he was not only denied appropriate health treatment at the behest of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, but was also harassed by high commission officials. He, along his wife Fatima Shah, gave a protest sit-in for 285 days near the Parliament of the Republic of India in defiance of the threats against his life committed by the Pakistan High Commission and its facilitation by the Indian authorities.

Hashmat Kewalramani, also spelled as Hashmat Kevalramani, sometimes written as Hushu Kewalramani, but most commonly as Hashoo Kewalramani (Sindhi: حشو ڪيولراماڻي‎), was a Sindhi dissident, political activist, and writer. He was forcibly exiled from Pakistan in 1949.